I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Slack
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Recruiter reached out over Linkedin, I thought it was odd as I am in a different role than the advertised position, which is in professional services, so I overlooked it. Both recruiter and hiring manager reach out over email directly a few weeks later, again about the same role. Was intrigued at that point. I got in touch with the hiring manager to understand what the role entails. After two rounds of interviews, turns out the position is indeed a vanilla standard role in their professional services org. Why are you interviewing people who are themselves telling you they are not interested in such roles? Is this part of a hiring/screening quota? Quite the time waste, and disappointing on Slack's part.
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Would you see yourself working in professional services?
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Singapur)
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The first email I received from them was a one-liner, "Hi xx, I haven't managed to get a hold of you!!?" Immediately I reported the email. Such unprofessionalism is pretty extreme. Eventually, I did get on an interview which was held on a public holiday in the country I reside in. It is not a big deal, but it shows how absent-minded the organiser for the interview was.
It was a phone interview with HR to gauge my interest, followed by two interviewers, one being the lead for the region and another being the role's reporting manager.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you convinced someone to do something.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
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Process was very well documented and supported by the recruiting team; I had a coach and cheerleader from our initial conversation to signing and offer and starting the onboarding phase.
My interview loop included the following:
- Initial screen with the recruiter - intros and soft questions from both of us on the role, my background, etc.
- Team screen with the hiring manager - a bit of a deep dive on both my experience (technical and non-technical) and the role I was interviewing for.
- A 'take-home' project/presentation (to showcase technical and customer-facing skills, which are applicable to the role) which was well-defined and I was given a loose timeline of approx. 2 weeks to finish.
- A final presentation with the hiring manager and another manager - included a resume deep dive and presenting the take-home project/presentation.
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Question 1
High level:
- Build a slack bot/app
- Create a pseudo-customer-facing presentation to showcase my background and project
